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Al Jazeera: War opposition and cost pressure may have fed GOP losses

Al Jazeera’s analysis puts two sources of voter frustration in the same frame: opposition to the Iran war and pressure from the cost of living. A Pew survey of 5,062 people found 65% opposed military operations against Iran; among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, support for strikes fell from 69% in March to 63% in October. Separately, an SSRS poll reported by Reuters found 9 in 10 voters considered living costs important to their vote, while about two-thirds held Trump responsible for worsening living conditions and higher prices. Al Jazeera argues the war’s material and human costs may have compounded that economic pressure. The polls can’t show whether Republicans would have suffered the same defeat without the war, so this is a reading of overlapping concerns, not proof that the war alone caused the losses.

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